the mainstream
noun
: the thoughts, beliefs, and choices that are accepted by the largest number of people
His ideas are well outside the mainstream of political opinion.
the religious mainstream
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After all, his own supporters don’t trust the mainstream media.
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Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Like Luna, Kite is participating directly in a system of cultural recording, but her refusal to legibly encode or concretize her scores for the mainstream destabilizes the ethnographic gaze and its desire to document, categorize, and control Indigenous culture, language, and bodies.
—Christopher T. Green, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
The meeting illustrated how the Trump administration is circumventing the mainstream media and instead working with pro-MAGA social media figures to release information.
—Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
But on a policy level, what emerges probably won’t look much too different from what’s offered by the mainstream of the Party.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
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Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Like Luna, Kite is participating directly in a system of cultural recording, but her refusal to legibly encode or concretize her scores for the mainstream destabilizes the ethnographic gaze and its desire to document, categorize, and control Indigenous culture, language, and bodies.
—Christopher T. Green, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
The meeting illustrated how the Trump administration is circumventing the mainstream media and instead working with pro-MAGA social media figures to release information.
—Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
But on a policy level, what emerges probably won’t look much too different from what’s offered by the mainstream of the Party.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
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“The mainstream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20mainstream. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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